The Back of the Class

Thursday, March 17, 2011

It's Danny's turn to provide a concrete solution to the problems of education. In this episode, he lays out his thoughts about how the High School experience can be re-envisioned. It's surprisingly lucid and well thought out.

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Following up on Simon's proposal last week, this week it was Patrick's turn to give a concrete plan for something he would do in education. This show focuses on a year-long immersive educational game that would leverage all kinds of technologies.

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

After a couple week's absence, we're back with a new show. We take a slightly different approach to this show in that we're going to spend a bit more time discussing the solutions that we'd actually propose to the problems of education rather than discussing what other people are doing.

First up is Simon, who spends some time in this week's episode discussing his overarching philosophy to technology usage in schools.

By the way - during this show, there are two mentions of literature with which Danny takes issue. The first deals with the possible negative effects of traditional education on high-achieving students, and the second deals with how teachers say they want creative students by don't actually want them in their classrooms. I said that I would find that literature and post it here...here it is (read it yourself to judge its quality):